General

If a slave can´t be detected by a network scan or if it is not present in the Device Catalog, it´s commonly the case of not choosing the correct file type upon importing the ESI file in SyCon.net.

Please make sure to choose EtherCAT DFF whilst importing the salve´s description file:

Master

One of the most crucial parts and often the cause of issues is the cabeling / topology of the EtherCAT network. Our master firmware is really strict about proper topology.

For EtherCAT every slave has an IN and an OUT Port and the master has a Main and a redundancy port.

The cabeling should be done as follows:

The master´s Main port is connected to the first slave´s IN port and the OUT port of the first slave is connected to the IN port of the second slave and so on.

For this document a network with two slaves was chosen:

Slave

Title 3 provides an entry in the table of contents as x.1 + n.1 + m

etc.